Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a graphicalmulti-protocol instant messaging client. The Common Vulnerabilities andExposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-1373

A buffer overflow in the Jabber file transfer code may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2009-1375

Memory corruption in an internal library may lead to denial of service.

CVE-2009-1376

The patch provided for the security issue tracked as CVE-2008-2927 - integer overflows in the MSN protocol handler - was found to be incomplete.

The old stable distribution (etch) is affected under the source packagename gaim. However, due to build problems the updated packages couldn'tbe released along with the stable version. It will be released once thebuild problem is resolved.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed inversion 2.4.3-4lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed inversion 2.5.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.

Upgrade instructions- --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for youdpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line forsources.list as given below: